Aguinaldo was not the scheming, power hungry TRAPO politician, an image prevailing today

From Dencio Yuson:

"The Full Story of Aguinaldo's Capture" by Lazaro Segovia (1969ed). The appendix contains an article by American journalist O.K Davis which appeared in Everybody's Magazine Vol.V Aug. 1901 that contains the remarkable unpublished "Aguinaldo Resignation Letter". I will excerpt the following from the said article:

In December, 1898, at the time when the Filipinos were in the hey-day of their power, Aguinaldo wrote a letter resigning the office of the president of the revolutionary government. For eight months they had been perfecting their organization and increasing their strength... They understood, both leaders and people, that the conflict with the Americans was approaching rapidly. 

He (Aguinaldo) went on to say... that the crisis was too great for him to deal with, that it required a man of greater strength and better education, an abler and older man to lead them through the difficulties which were before them... and he asked the people to give him as 'Aguinaldo', release from the office of the president, and allow him to resign in favor of a man more fitted than he to guide them.
This letter was never circulated. Mabini and his colleagues discovered that Aguinaldo had written it and they succeeded in persuading or compelling him to suppress it. THE TRUTH IS THAT AGUINALDO WAS THE IDOL OF THE FILIPINOS, THOUSANDS OF WHOM WOULD FOLLOW HIM BLINDLY WITH ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE. IF THAT LETTER HAD BEEN MADE PUBLIC BY AGUINALDO THE INSURRECTION WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE. 

my comment:
Too bad that the whole letter was not published along with the article. This letter proves that Aguinaldo was not the scheming, power hungry TRAPO politician, an image prevailing today.

Isa ding dahilan ang letter of resignation na yan ang nakikita kong dahilan kung bakit napakapowerful ng nilikha nilang "council of government"........sa sistema nila noon ang pangulo ay magiging simbulismo na lamang ng pagkakaisa at ang "Council of Government" ang siya talagang mamamalaha sa paggogobyerno......solusyon na sa tingin ko kung bakit napapayag nilang manatili si Hen. Miong sa pwesto.(Maging guiding star ng bansa/moto stella) - Kasaysayan At Iba Pa...

Ayon kay TM Kalaw ang plano ni Hen. Miong ay gawing Pangulo ng bansa si Mabini, subalit tinanggihan sapagkat wala ang prestihiyo sa kanya sapagkat ang pangulo lamang ang kinikilala ng mga tao.......ang sagot sa tingin ko sa problema na kinahaharap nila noon sa leadership ng bansa ay ang Makapangyarihang Council of Government at Prime Minister...


Batay sa Malolos Constitution ano mang akta(act) ng pangulo na walang pagsangayon(pirma ng council)ng mga secretaryo ay hindi irerecognized ng mga public officials......imagine that.....napaka pwerful ng pwesto ng pagka Punong Ministro...


Ayaw ni lang malaman itong katotohanan na ito sa sinabi ni Mabini.Mas gusto nila yung pagsisinungaling ni Mabini.Para ma justify yung kanilang mga inaakusa kay Aguinaldo. - Willie Pangilinan

Thanks to Kasaysayan atbp